Installed in several intimate galleries of the 20th-century department, it proves once again that the Met can mount a boutique show with as much panache as a five-alarm blockbuster.
A salute rather than a full survey, "A Century of Design, Part 1: 1900-1925" is installed in several intimate galleries in the 20th-century wing.
The topmost level contains a series of smaller, more intimate galleries, which are now used to display the Gallery's collection of Australian art.
This year the Whitney also opened 11 intimate galleries focusing on art from 1900 to 1950.
Kahn succeeded in creating intimate galleries where one can view objects in diffused natural light.
Instead of a crisp frame enclosing intimate galleries, the museum is now an unfocused blur.
The red-velvet-covered walls of one intimate gallery are a perfect background for the Renaissance reliefs and carvings exhibited there.
The addition would contain a series of fairly intimate galleries, stacked vertically; in some cases there would be openings between floors to permit two-story spaces and small balconies.
Still, carefully selected and cleverly shoehorned into the intimate three galleries of the 20th-century wing set aside for design, this one revels in its international presence.
When the Freer completed renovations in 1993, it created in its Japanese section an intimate gallery whose orangey brown walls recall the rustic huts favored for ritual teas.
